Improved spoon-holder



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Letters Patent No. 100,938, dated March 15, 1870.

IMPROVED SPOON-HOLDER.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom fit may concern:

\Be it known that I, SAMUEL SIMPSON, of Wallingford, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Spoon-l Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in- Figure 1, a top view, and in Figure 2, a side view. t

This invention relates to an improvement in gongbells for dining-tables, the object being to combine the bell with the spoon-holder, an article always needed on the table, whether for breakfast, dinner, or tea, as also to raise the bell where it will be less liahle to be. accidentally rung than the usual independent article; and

The invention consist-s in combining with a spoonholder or receiver, constructed with a rack to support the spoons or for is, as thel case may be, a bell commonly known as a gong-bell, and such combination forming a perfect whole.

A represents a rack, constructed with several arms or hooks to receive and support each -a singlev fork or spoon, as the case may be, being of suicient height from the base to permit the spoon or fork to hang vertically in the rack.

C is the gong tixed to a support, B, the ,said snpport being made a partot' or att-ached to the spoonholder.

Dis the hammer and E the gong, by which the bell is sounded. The constrnctionof the gong in its operative mechanism is that in common use.

By this construction the bell is raised,- and in itself forms an ornament to the spoon-holder, the bell and spoon-holder forming a complete article of mamifacture.

l' claim as my invention- The combination of a gong-bell wit-h a spoon-holder, constructed substantially 'as herein described, as an article of mnnuihcture.

SAMUEL SIMPSON.

Witnesses:

FRANKLIN PLA'r'r, S. M. SonANToN. 

